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Patent GB-190805188-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Gas Producers.
Inventor: SCHMATOLLA ERNST
Filed: 1908-03-07
Granted: 1908-09-10
Abstract: 5188. Schmatolla, E. March 7. Fire-bars and grates.-To facilitate the removal of ashes and slag from the grate of a gas - producer, stationary and movable firebars r, p, respectively, ara arranged alternately, the movable bars p being supported by projections r<1> formed on the lower part of the bar r. The bars p are formed at each end with extensions, and when natural draught is employed and the producer is open at each side, the extensions are provided with toothed projections p<1> and with holes p<2>, so that, by inserting a hook into these holes and drawing the bars forward, the projections convey the slag to the end of the grate. When the producer is provided with a closed ash-pit and forced draught is employed, the projections p<1> are formed at only one end of the bars, and the other ends are carried through a stuffing-box and. project on the exterior of the producer. The bars may be connected together and actuated either mechanically or by hand, and the surface of the fuel is arranged approximately parallel to the grate.
Patent GB-190810394-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Mechanism for Electrically Operating Railway and like Signals.
Filed: 1908-05-13
Granted: 1908-06-25
Abstract: 10,394. Siemens Bros. & Co., and Ferreira, L. de. M. G. May 13. Controlling and locking signals. - A device is described for disengaging the signal arm from the gear driven by its operating motor. It operates with a very small holding-off current and has a stationary magnet which is only required to hold, and not to move, its armature. The motor a, Fig. 1, drives the wheel e which is loose on the shaft f. An arm g keyed on this shaft has pivoted to it a pawl i, preferably semi-cylindrical, to which is attached the crank k. The crank is attached by the link l to the pivoted armature m of the electro-magnet q. When the electro-magnet is energized and attracts its armature m, the pin o is co-axial with the shaft f, and the pawl i engages with the teeth of the wheel e. In this position, therefore, on closing the switch p, the motor will turn the wheel e and operate the semaphore arm, which is attached to the arm g by the rod h The arm g will move round until it contacts with the spring r to break the motor circuit, but the circuit of the electro-magnet q remains completed and the pawl i therefore locks the arm at safety. When the switch p is opened, the magnet circuit is broken and the weight of the signal arm forces the armature m away from the magnet, and the pawl i is released from the teeth of the wheel e, the semaphore thus returning to danger. The arm g then bears against a spring s carried by an arm of the armature m, which is thereby brought back against the magnet. When the gearing is not otherwise prevented from running backwards the detent t is provided. When the pawl is semicylindrical, as shown, it may be arranged to bear against the teeth through its cylindrical surface, with the result that the weight of the arm is not transmitted to the lever m, Fig. 4, so that the holding-off current has only to hold up the counterweight u.
Patent GB-190811859-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Physical Culture Apparatus.
Inventor: BRADFORD GEORGE
Filed: 1908-06-01
Granted: 1909-06-01
Abstract: 11,859. Bradford, G., and Barella, G. June 1. Gymnastic apparatus.-Relates to a device by which exercises appertaining to weight lifting can be performed, A bar a, preferably jointed, carries revolvable brackets b, which are connected to brackets e and stirrups f by resilient members d. Any parts of the device may be secured to a wall &c. [Reference has been directed under Section 7 of Patents &c: Act, 1907, to Specification No. 10,476, A.D. 1902.]
Patent GB-190816551-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Belt Clasps.
Inventor: POWELL CHARLES WILLIAM
Filed: 1908-08-05
Granted: 1908-11-05
Abstract: 16,551. Powell, C. W. Aug. 5. Buckles; friction-grip fastenings.-A fastener for belts, straps, &c. comprises a casing 1 having a slot 2 registering with a slot 5 in a trough-shaped lining, and a sliding securing-piece 9 provided with projections which are guided in inclined slots 7 in the lining. One end of the belt is secured in the slots 5, 2, while the other is frictionally held between the casing 1 and the piece 9, the projecting end 11 of which allows it to be released.
Patent GB-190817606-A (GB)
Title: Improvements relating to Holders for Bottles or the like.
Inventor: MARKS SIMON
Filed: 1908-08-21
Granted: 1909-02-11
Abstract: 17,606. Marks, S. Aug. 21. Bottle holders.- A bottle-holder and drip-container comprises a base e raised at f to support the bottle clear of the base, and a rim c with spring arms d, preferably with reduced bearing- surfaces h. The holder may be constructed to contain more than one bottle.
Patent GB-190818619-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Electric Protective Devices of the Type known as Lighning Arresters.
Filed: 1908-09-04
Granted: 1909-03-04
Abstract: 18,619. British Thomson-Houston Co., [General Electric Co.]. Sept. 4. Condensers.-A lightning-arrester for power circuits has concentric cylindrical aluminium electrodes and an electrolyte of an acid solution of ammonium tartrate with a little glycerine. The two cells shown in Fig. 1 are held together by bands 17, 18, and each consists of a glass jar 1 with a porcelain cover 2, which carries lugs 5, 6, 7 for the studs 8, 9, 10 connected with the electrodes. Fig. 2 shows the concentric electrodes 11, 12 separated by the glass studs 13, the electrode 11 having windows 14 cut for a portion of its length to allow circulation of the electrolyte. The studs 8, 10 are connected to the electrode 11 and the stud 9 to the electrode 12. The cells are connected in series between the conductor to be protected and earth.
Patent GB-190818846-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Addressing Machines.
Inventor: ELLIOTT STERLING
Filed: 1908-09-08
Granted: 1908-11-05
Abstract: 18,846. Elliott, S. Aug. 19, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Addressing-machines.-In an addressing-machine, stencil plates are fed from a hopper 4 along guideways 2, by a sliding pusher with raised sides 7 and a depressed centre portion 8, in which dirt or dust may collect from between the plates and escape. Each plate passes over a hole 16, where it is pressed with the paper beneath it, between an impression roller 20 inked from a cylinder 27, and a platen 17. The machine is operated either by an electric motor 45 and gearing 42, 43, through trip gear 49, 50, 51 actuated through a pedal 46, or else by a swinging treadle, pivoted on the shaft 15. The sliding pusher 7 is reciprocated through levers 10, 12, and a cam 13 on the shaft 15. Another cam 19 on the shaft 15 raises the platen 17 at the same moment as the impression roller 20 is depressed through a lever 23 and a link 24. The roller 20 is soft and flattens against the stencil plate. On rising, it contacts with the inking-roller 27, mounted on pivoted arms 28, and lifts it, while a pawl 35 on the fixed but adjustable arm 36, engages with a ratchet wheel 34 on the drum 27, and rotates it. The arm 36 is so adjusted that in its topmost position the pawl 35 rides noiselessly over the ratchet-wheel as the drum 27 revolves by momentum. On being lowered, the levers 28 are arrested by a stop 32 contacting with the cross-bar 31 so that the roller 20 leaves the drum 27, and has time to stop revolving before meeting the stencil plate. The drum 27 may be rotated by the handle 37. So long as the treadle 46 is depressed, the connecting-rod 40 engages the pin 38 with the short end of the bayonet-slot 39 and operates the machine. When the pedal is raised, the pin 38 merely slides in the long portion of the slot.
Patent GB-190819018-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in and relating to Gas-fired Furnaces.
Inventor: BARNSLEY PERCIVAL GOLDING
Filed: 1908-09-10
Granted: 1909-07-22
Abstract: 19,018. Barnsley, P. G. Sept. 10. Producers.-In connexion with a producer A arranged below a furnace B for annealing, casehardening, &c., water is heated in a coil a<1> or in a passage formed in the walls of the producer, and the steam generated is led to the injector.
Patent GB-190819253-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Lifts or Hoists.
Inventor: BROWN NORMAN SEDDON
Filed: 1908-04-15
Granted: 1909-03-18
Abstract: 19,253. Brown, N. S. April 15. [Patent of Addition to No. 22,667, A.D. 1907.] Lifts.-In lift cages fitted with safety devices of the kind described in Specification No. 22,667, A.D. 1907, mechanism is provided for stopping the cage on meeting an obstruction, and a balanced foot-plate withiu the cage prevents the lift from being started unless the attendant is in his place. Fig. 7 shows a lift cage fitted with the device for gripping the handing rope or chain when the cage meets an obstruction. One of the grip jaws D is connected by a link d<1> to a handlever B, and the inner end of the link abuts against a catch-bar E engaging a fixed catch. The bar E is connected by rod g to a lever G mounted below the cage, so that any obstruction below the cage lifts the catch bar E and allows the spring b<1> to operate the link d<1> and apply the grip to the handing-rope. The bar E is also connected by a rod h to a lever K<1>, which is so arranged in relation to a pivoted lever or cradle H that motion of the latter in either direction raises the rod h and applies the rope grip. Fig. 12 shows a device for preventing movement of the cage unless the attendant is standing on a foot-plate. On the pivot of the hand-lever B is mounted a weighted lever M connected by a link m to a foot-plate N hinged in the cage floor. If the attendant steps off the plate N, the hand-lever B is operated by a projection on the lever M and the hand-rope is gripped, thereby preventing movement of the cage.
Patent GB-190819277-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Hand Die Presses.
Inventor: BARRETT HENRY JAMES
Filed: 1908-09-14
Granted: 1909-02-18
Abstract: 19,277. Barrett, H. J. Sept. 14. Embossing. - In hand die-presses the pins a, which have no enlarged portion or head, are attached to the die-holder b and move in holes in lugs c, the pins being long enough always to fill the holes. Grooves d are provided in the press body e for guiding the pins. The handle g for depressing the die-holder is strengthened in the neighbourhood of the usual hole for locking purposes, by enlarging it.
Patent GB-190819302-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Treatment of Brine.
Inventor: MALCOLM GEORGE WILLIAM
Filed: 1908-09-14
Granted: 1909-10-14
Abstract: 19,302. Malcolm, G. W., and Munton, F. T. Sept. 14. Drawings to Specification. Chlorine is obtained as a by-product in a process of purifying brine by electrolysis.
Patent GB-190820686-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Gas Producers.
Inventor: BOWMER JOHN JOSEPH
Filed: 1908-04-01
Granted: 1909-01-07
Abstract: 20,686. Bowmer, J. J. April 1. Producers.-A reciprocating bottom-plate for removing ash and clinker is used in the form of gas-producer described in Specification No. 21,682, A.D. 1907. The plate 1 is arranged below the level of the water in the ash-pan 10, and is reciprocated by a band-lever 5 ; its back edge slides in contact with a fixed plate 8. In a modification, the plate is arranged as an horizontal damper above the door of a closed ash-pit.
Patent GB-190826142-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Resilient Wheels.
Inventor: DECAUVILLE PIERRE EUGENE
Filed: 1908-12-03
Granted: 1909-12-03
Abstract: 26,142. Decauville, P. E. Dec. 4, 1907, [date applied for under Section 91 of Patents &c. Act, 1907]. Springs.-In the form shown in Figs. 6 and 7, the elastic cushion consists of a non- rotary ring h separated from the spoke ring e by ball bearings. Fixed to the ring h are arms h<1> engaging laminated springs i fixed to the bearing-axle g, which also is formed with diametrical cylinders g' containing compressed air or springs acting on pistons g<2> linked to the ring h at g<3>.
Patent GB-190826940-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Mechanism for Counting and Stacking Cartons or Folded Box Blanks.
Inventor: STAUDE EDWIN GUSTAVE
Filed: 1908-12-11
Granted: 1909-12-13
Abstract: 26,940. Staude, E. G. Dec. 11. Delivery apparatus. - Folded cartons or blanks are received from folding-mechanism, and stacked in a pile, off-set at intervals for counting, by t h mechanism shown. The cartons are fed by belts 17, 18, Fig. 2, rolls 22, and belts 34 to a carton - receiver with adjustable walls 39, 40, in which they are raised by rotating spirals 42. The cartons are off-set at intervals by means of a pivoted bar 50 having an arm 52, which is caused to enter the receiver by mechanism described below. A locking- arm 56 prevents heavy cartons from pushing the arm 52 out of the receiver, the locking - arm being released from the stop 58, Fig. 5, when a sufficient number of cartons has entered the receiver. The arm 52 is caused to enter the receiver when a lug 69 on a lever 70, connected to the bar 50 by a rod 71, enters a recess 68 in a ratchet-wheel 64 driven by a belt 67, which slips when the ratchet is temporarily locked. To ensure a step-by-step movement of the ratchet, escapement mechanism comprising pivoted levers 73, 74 is provided. The passage of a carton between a pair of rolls driven from a shaft 14, which engage one edge only of the carton, and one of which is fastened to a rocker arm carried by the lever 74, causes the disengagement of the lever 74 from the ratchet-wheel. A spring 87 forces the lever 73 into engagement as the lever 74 is disengaged. A registering-device 88, actuated by a pin 89, is mounted on the shaft 66. In a modification, an escapement lever 90, Fig. 7, having dog 93, is oscillated by an arm 96 yieldingly connected to it.
Patent GB-190914816-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Water Tube Boilers, Economisers, and other Plant in which Heat is Applied to a Plurality of Tubes.
Inventor: SMALLWOOD LEONARD ALFRED
IPC: F22B17/16
Filed: 1909-06-24
Granted: 1910-06-27
Abstract: 14,816. Smallwood, L. A. June 24. Drawings to Specification. Feed-water, heating.-Partitions for directing the heating-gases among the tubes of fuel-economizers and like apparatus are constructed of blocks of refractory material with channels in their upper surfaces to accommodate the tubes. They are suspended on rods, which rest on the tubes or take into holes in the side walls ; or they are otherwise supported in such a way as to require no structural alterations in the apparatus. They may be arranged to leave spaces around the tubes, or they may be fitted with metal linings.
Patent GB-190915374-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to Falling or Drop Shutters for Weirs and the like.
Inventor: STOKES FREDERICK WILFRID SCOTT
IPC: E02B7/36
Filed: 1909-07-01
Granted: 1910-03-17
Abstract: 15,374. Stokes, F. W. S. July 1. Sluice gates.-Horizontally-hinged drop-shutters for weirs are raised by means of a travelling carriage passing over or adjacent to the shutters. Figs. 2 and 3 show in cross-section and plan respectively a shutter F which is raised by means of a helical guide H, and Fig. 7 shows an endless chain R for raising the shutter either during the travel of the carriage or when it is stationary. The guide H, Figs. 2 and 3, the lower end of which is hinged at H' to allow it to be raised, takes under a roller F on the upper end of the shutter, and when the latter is vertical the toggle strut F<2> is pressed straight by means of a curved rail L. To take the water pressure off the shutter while it is being raised, a screen M, Fig. 3, is provided, and in order to assist in the propulsion an adjustable plane P is fitted. The carriage is prevented from derailment by rollers bearing upon the side of the rail or by clips taking over the head of the rail. In place of an endless chain, a lever or like device may be employed to raise the shutter.
Patent GB-190922126-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Spinning Machinery.
Inventor: BRIGGS GEORGE COLLINS ELI
IPC: D01H7/20
Filed: 1909-09-28
Granted: 1910-02-03
Abstract: 22,126. Briggs, G. C. E., Heap, W., Bateman, L. H., and Bateman, R. W. Sept. 28. Materials, special.-Ring bearing-washers for spinning-spindles are made of glass. The washer a has a projecting boss b, and on the underside a lubricating-recess c to which access is gained by orifices through the washer or by grooves g, Fig. 5, in the wall d. A flanged metal tray h may be placed beneath the washer.
Patent GB-190924773-A (GB)
Title: A Combined Boot Cleaner and Scraper with Revolving Brush Worked by Hand.
Inventor: PILLINER FRANCIS FREDERIC
IPC: A47L23/26
Filed: 1910-04-25
Granted: 1910-12-31
Abstract: 24,773. Pilliner, F. F. April 25, 1910. Scrapers, foot and hall.- In apparatus for cleaning boots while on the wearer's feet comprising a revolving brush combined with a scraper, the scraper is bent outwards to get in under the heel.
Patent GB-190925360-A (GB)
Title: An Improved Process for the Utilization of Materials Employed for Purifying Illuminating-gas.
Inventor: SIMONIN HENRI
IPC: C10K1/26
Filed: 1909-11-03
Granted: 1910-08-04
Abstract: 25,360. Simonin, H. Nov. 5, 1908, [Convention date]. Sulphur. - Gas-purifier waste is freed from sulphur by extraction under heat and pressure with a solvent such as carbon tetrachloride.
Patent GB-190926913-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Inking Mechanism for Printing Presses.
Inventor: LAKE WILLIAM EDWARD
IPC: B41F31/00
Filed: 1909-11-19
Granted: 1910-07-07
Abstract: 26,913. Lake, W. E., [Goss Printing Press Co.]. Nov. 19. Inking-apparatus.-The ink-distributing rollers 28 and the inking-drum 10 are cooled by air sprayed on or circulated through them. The rollers 28 are reciprocated through bell-cranks 30 and eccentrics on the shafts 15, which are driven by helical or worm gear, and one of which also operates the ductor roll through a cam and ratchet gear. Air under pressure is led by a pipe 35 to a valve 37 automatically operated by a cam and sector to open and close at any desired times. The air passes to the threeway valve 72, by which it may be directed through the stuffing-box 77 into the segmental cooling-chambers 11 in the drum, and thence by the valve 72 either out into the atmosphere direct by a pipe 81, or first into the pipe 68 or the pipes 60, 66, to be sprayed on to the inking - surfaces. Suitable valves allow the air to be passed wholly or in part direct to the spray pipes 60, 66, 68. The automatic valve 37 may be held inoperative if desired, by a catch.
Patent GB-191003578-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in Signalling and Interlocking for Railways and Tramways.
IPC: B61L23/22
Filed: 1910-02-14
Granted: 1910-06-23
Abstract: 3578. Dutton, C., and MeKenzie & Holland. Feb. 14. [Addition to 784/09.] Interlocking signalling - instruments. - In a method of working traffic in two directions on a single line of rails as described in the parent Specification, the interlocking between the master levers and the signalling instruments is replaced by a track circuit which ensures that the reversal of working shall not take place unless the whole track is clear of trains. In the system arranged as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the track rails between the stations A, E are divided into insulated sections by insulators 14, and track relays 11 are connected to each section and energized from track batteries 13, the circuits being arranged so that, if no train is on the line, all the relays are energized. The normal circuit during ' Up ' working from E to A for the relay 11 at D is from the battery 13 at E, wire 57, switch 27 at the hand-lever 4, wire 58, contacts of the commutator 5, wire 60, rail to D, wire 62, commutator 6, relay 11, contacts of commutator 5, wire 67, and rail to E. The relay 11 controls a similar circuit to the relay at C with the exception of the omission of the contacts on the hand-lever. The last relay 11 at A controls a lock magnet 19 on the initiating-switch 15. Thus, if a train is on the track, one or more relays 11 are deenergized and the lock-magnet 19 does not release the switch. In order to prevent the operation of the signal lever 3 at the entrance to the length of the track after the reversal has been initiated and before it has been completed, a lockmagnet 25 is fitted on the lever 3, the circuit of this magnet passing through contacts on the commutators at stations A, B and through the contacts 6<a>, opened by the armature of the commutatorlocking magnet 8 at station A. In a modification, the track rails between the end stations are not divided into insulated sections, and the track batteries are connected to the rails so as to energize a locking-magnet on the initiating- switch to release a lock which holds that switch in its operated position. The switch is then free to be replaced by a spring if a train is on the track. The switch is fitted with two pairs of contacts; one pair is in the circuit of the commutator lock - magnets as usual, and the other is in the circuit of its own lock-magnet. An arrangement of circuits at switch-points to prevent reversal of working if a train is approaching on the branch line is described.
Patent GB-191005119-A (GB)
Title: Improvements in or relating to the Regulation of the Speed of Polyphase Electric Motors.
IPC: H02K27/12
Filed: 1910-03-01
Granted: 1911-02-16
Abstract: 5119. Siemens Bros. Dynamo Works, [Siemens-Schuckertwerke]. March 1. Alternating-current motors.-Polyphase electric motors m, Fig. 1, having their stator and rotor windings connected to external circuits, are automatically controlled by causing an exchange of electric power to take place, between the rotor and stator windings in such a manner that the voltages applied to the motor windings are controlled and varied, and the exchange of power is dependent upon the load on the motor. The exchange of power may'be effected by means of a transformer s, Fig. 1, adjustable so that the two currents exactly oppose one another, or so that they may act at any desired phase angle with respect to one another. An ordinary rotary-field transformer may be used with windings on a stator and rotor, the latter being held stationary at any desired angle with respect to the stator. Other types of transformers may be used. For example, the starconnected windings of the transformers may form the two windings of an ordinary three-phase transformer arranged so that there is no mutual induction between the two windings, and an exchange of energy between the two windings of the transformer obtained by means of an auxiliary winding connected in " delta " and forming the " star " point of the stator winding. A drooping speed characteristic with increasing load is obtained by causing a transfer of energy from the rotor to the stator, and a rising characteristic obtained by causing the transfer to take place in the opposite sense. In controlling an induction motor h, Fig. 4, by the above method, the slip-rings are connected to the transformer s through a frequency-changer f driven by an induction motor m connected as shown. If the motors h, m run at different speeds, a third winding is arranged in the transformer s acting in opposition to the winding connected to the stator.
Patent GB-191005682-A (GB)
Title: Improvement in Gramophones and similar Machines for Recording or Reproducing Sound.
Inventor: HENNING FREDERICK WILLIAM JOHN
Filed: 1910-03-07
Granted: 1911-03-02
Abstract: 5682. Henning, F. W. J., and Wetter, J. March 7. Turntables. - An insulating-pad between a record disk and the turntable, to prevent the record from slipping, consists of a gelatinized composition of equal weights of pulverized starch and concentrated magnesium or calcium chloride solution. The liquid mixture is heated to from 50-100‹ C. in a shallow tin mould. To make the pad tougher, 1-10 per cent of flour is added; and to reduce the hygroscopicity, a small quantity of paraffin oil or alkali bichromate is added. A gauze core of muslin or fabric is preferably incorporated in the pad, which may also have moulded ribs.